{"id":11878,"date":"2019-09-23T12:02:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T08:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=11878"},"modified":"2019-09-23T12:02:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T08:02:07","slug":"first-glimpse-of-the-rocket-that-will-take-emirati-astronaut-hazza-to-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2019\/09\/23\/first-glimpse-of-the-rocket-that-will-take-emirati-astronaut-hazza-to-space\/","title":{"rendered":"First glimpse of the rocket that will take Emirati astronaut Hazza to space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The first stage of a journey to carry an Emirati astronaut to space began with a three hour ride on the back of a train and a spectacular sunrise over rural Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Soyuz-FG carrier was unveiled to television crews and journalists near Baikonur Cosmodrome, trundling along the tracks at the start of a mission to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The train carrying the huge vehicle moved at walking pace for hours as it made its way to Gagarin&#8217;s Start, the launch pad that that took the first human to space. The take-off on Wednesday will be the last time the pad is used.<br><br>The UAE&#8217;s Hazza Al Mansouri will follow in Yuri Gagarin\u2019s footsteps when he is strapped into the Soyuz and blasted into space just before 6pm UAE time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Monday, the UAE flag flew proudly at this historic site alongside the Russian and American flags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final raising of the Soyuz into its launch position was watched by more than 100 spectators including family and friends of the three astronauts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first stage of a journey to carry an Emirati astronaut to space began with a three hour ride on the back of a train and a spectacular sunrise over rural Kazakhstan. The Soyuz-FG carrier was unveiled to television crews and journalists near Baikonur Cosmodrome, trundling along the tracks at the start of a mission &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11881,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11878\/revisions\/11881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}